Matthew 5

while reading matthew 5 i cam across this

13"You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men.

now i have never really under stood this, i mean how does slat lose its saltness? then i started thinking about salt. and when i pout salt in my mouth, which at first is is salty then it loses it saltness. cause it dissolves, and my mouth is clean again, but what happen to the slat? it has no longer become salt it has become nothing. so how does men tramp on it, they do not , cause salt is no more. so are we dissolving are we becoming nothing, and how do we keep our saltness? good questions you might say, but i have no clue. i guess it is by teaching and reading and spending time with god.



later on in matthew 5 it it talks about committing adultery and divorce. how come it only talks about a man leaving his wife. now i understand that at the time is was a male society it that the only reason? so how does this work with that woman are created equal? i am not sure, but reading and exploring will help us find out. matthew 5 is packed with alot of good stuff to tlak about.

matthew 5:33 talks about othes, and how your yes be yea and no be nos. this is hard to live by, it is talking about being a person of your word. it is doing what you saying you will do. not just saying you will do something, but doing it.

the hardest thing in matthew 5 to read is :

43"You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor^[h] and hate your enemy.' 44But I tell you: Love your enemies^[i] and pray for those who persecute you, 45that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. 46If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? 47And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? 48Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

it is hard to love someone who does not love you back. it is hard just to love someone who does not like you or even respect you. why is is hard, is it cause of society saying we need to take care of ourself first, is it the goal of justice, is it human nature. what what is it that keeps us from respecting each other. why do people feel like there better then some one else. i try i try hard to not think i am better then some one. i hope you do to.

- a wee little man

Matthew 4

reading matthew 4 it really scares me. it says that satan knows the bible. how do we know if it is satan or god taking to use. if you what the preachers on tv. they are all good speakers, they speak well and have a good lesson. but some times if you you listen to them, what they say is just a little off. it scares me, how easy it is to just changing a word, or use a versus out of context, you can get the bible to say what you want it to say.

after the temptation, and bing in the dessert for 40 days not eating. the angels attend to jesus, what doses that mean. was it angel with wings and harps, or like the birds bring him food like the ravens.


matthw4 goes on to say that then he being teaching, did he not teach until after the temptation.

on a side note, about these blogs. i trying to ready these at face value. and as a whole book. i know other books have jesus preaching at a younger age. am i not trying to compare the different books, just tying to look at it at face valve. with new eyes.

¹⁸As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. ¹⁹"Come, follow me," Jesus said, "and I will make you fishers of men." ²⁰At once they left their nets and followed him.

now simon called peter, huh what. so is his name simon or peter, or both. why not just call him simon. or if he changed his name to peter did he have to go down to the court house and change it legally. and how hard was it for him to get people to call him peter after he has benn called simon for so long.

i like being called a fisher of men. it is hard to live by, though it is hard to be a fisher of man. it is hard to talk to people about jesus with out getting a weird look. how do you do it, how do you talk about jesus and your own walk with god with strangers.

any ideas?

- a wee little man

Matthew 3

matthew opens with john the baptist preaching in the desert.  and how that filled the prophecies of isaiah.  isn't it all desert out there?  why is it a big deal what he is wearing and eating.  i mean why is that special in those days.  

1"I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me will come one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not fit to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

what i want to look at is what is in bold.  we know that jesus  brought the holy spirit and you know this by the flames over there heads of the apostles.  did john also mean by tirals, and hard ships for christ?

also in matthew 3 is the baptism of jesus.  many people belive  you have to be baptized to be saved many think it is something that is volunter.  here is what  i beliveve baptizem is. it is a part of being saved,  can you be saved with out baptism i am not the one to answer that.  but i believe that baptizm is a public comment that you are makeing in front of people.  by being baptized you are telling these people, i am  giving my life to christ, but i can not do it alone i need your help. you will help me be more like christ and i will help you. 

 16As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting on him. 17And a voice from heaven said, "This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased."

growing  up i  have been tought ath when jesus was baptized it would be is a big crowd.  then then the voice form heaven, said this is my son. how come theis was not enough for them.  i can understadn today with speakers and mic and such, but back then from heaven, with a brid. how many people just have a wild brid land on his shoulder?  

any more thoughts?

-a wee little man

Matthew 2

matthew 2 talks about the magi going to worship the king of judea.  and about how the king at the time king herod  want to kill all the babes boys cause he was the only king.  it also speaks about fulfilling the prophecies.  

my question at this time is how do they know of these prophecies.  i mean are they written down some place. and if it is all oral tradition, how do they know it is what it was really saying.  Try this get a group of 10 people and sit in a circle, now you start and whisper to in the ear of the person on the right and say.  Eplhanets have no lips and love cookies.  then the perosn on your right tell the perosn on there right  and go areound the cricle till it comes back to you and see if the sentence is the same.   How do they keep it correct ofer 1000 years.  i am not saying that there are worng, i just want to knwo how they knew.

- a wee little man

Matthew 1

i am going to be reading out of the new international version of the the bible.   the first 17 versus of the matthew is the genealogy of jesus.  

16 and Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.

versus 16 says that it was joseph,  is in the line not mary, so being that they mary and joseph ahd no union till after the brith of christ how does that make him his son.  didn't the jews have to be blood realted, to be in the family tree? shouldn't it me mary that is the one in the line not joseph.  

-a wee little man

a new begining

ok ok i have been talking about my study on singles and paul.  but i have decied i will com back to that at a later date.  since it is the 3rd day of the new year 2008.  i am going to read a chapter of the bible a day and blog abotu what i have found out.  now i wanted to start this on the first but i forgot, so i am going to try to catchup.   i am going to start with the book of matthew.  and woark my whay throught the new testement and then the old. 

thanks

Mark 4:1-20

to switch gears, casue i am not sure the next step in my progression of my class. i am going to look at a passage that we studied in my sunday school class. the passage we looked at in mark is the parable of the Sower. Here is the passage we looked at:

Mark 4

The Parable of the Sower

¹Again Jesus began to teach by the lake. The crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it out on the lake, while all the people were along the shore at the water's edge. ²He taught them many things by parables, and in his teaching said: ³"Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed. ⁴As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. ⁵Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. ⁶But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. ⁷Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants, so that they did not bear grain. ⁸Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up, grew and produced a crop, multiplying thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times."

⁹Then Jesus said, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."

¹⁰When he was alone, the Twelve and the others around him asked him about the parables. ¹¹He told them, "The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables ¹²so that,
" 'they may be ever seeing but never perceiving,
and ever hearing but never understanding;
otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!'^[a]"

¹³Then Jesus said to them, "Don't you understand this parable? How then will you understand any parable? ¹⁴The farmer sows the word. ¹⁵Some people are like seed along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them. ¹⁶Others, like seed sown on rocky places, hear the word and at once receive it with joy. ¹⁷But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away. ¹⁸Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word; ¹⁹but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful. ²⁰Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop—thirty, sixty or even a hundred times what was sown."

i learned many thing things and had thoughts about this today. we are going to take it a little at a time.

¹Again Jesus began to teach by the lake. The crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it out on the lake, while all the people were along the shore at the water's edge.

It looks like, he sat in the boat. for some reason i always thought he was standing. but it is prolly hard to stand in a small boat.

if you grown up in any church you know the parable of the sower. in my history we talk about the sower and the seed. but what about the soil. my questions is what soil type are you?

you can be different soils at different times. But what type are you right now?

- a wee little man